PSY 707 Lecture 7: PSY707_classnotes_CH7__2016
5 Oct 2016
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Fear: the emotion we experience in response to concrete danger. Anxiety: complex feelings of uneasiness to possible impending threats. If anxiety is excessive and disabling and there is lack of a physical cause, a person may have an anxiety disorder. Most common group of disorders in canada. About 12 percent of the adult population suffer from an anxiety disorder in any year. Disabling levels of fear or anxiety that are frequent, severe, persistent, or easily triggered. Most people with one anxiety disorder experience another one as well. Symptoms: fatigue, muscle tension, restlessness, irritability, sleep disturbances, concentration problems. Women > men; onset often begins in childhood or adolescence. Symptoms exacerbated by stress and can wax and wane throughout a person"s life. Characterized by repeated and unexpected panic attacks along with worry about future attacks. Symptoms of panic attack are similar to those of heart attack and include chest pains, rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, dizziness, etc.
